Ok … forgive me for being the “cup is half empty because it spilled all over my lap and was filled with blazing hot McDonald’s Coffee” kind of person but doesn’t this scream:

We Don’t have a frikin clue what we are doing in this market and we really have no idea what this generation wants…. so PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY HELP US!!!!

Seriously, I like the fact that they are reaching out to the community and asking for suggestions (knock knock Apple), but if you don’t know what your spiffy new product should have along with it, you should have stuck with xBoxes.

But since they asked:

How about no DRM? Oh wait that’s not an accessory. How about a better name? Nope not an accessory. Darn, this is harder than it looks… I guess they had problems figuring it out too.

Hey here’s a few thoughts:

FM-Mod – This should be top priority (next to pink cases that clip onto purses and ones with leopard print.)

Cases – not to state the obvious.

Ipod Adapter / converter so that the Zune can replace/adapt to all the adapters on the market that were made for cars, trucks and what not. If you want to knock iPod off the top, you need to be able to easily replace it in every existing installation. BMW’s come with the adapter for iPod’s… the Zune needs to be able to just plug in and go without any modifications.

Work calls … I could keep the ideas going all day long but Microsoft has called me about a job yet LOL

Note: hasn’t called me about a job yet.

Wow – and LOL nice thoughts. No DRM would garner just a few votes I reckon. But … No, I don’t think it screams that they haven’t got a clue (they being your future employers of course). I think *the* big selling point of Zune so far is the wireless / sharing abilities – and I think that is a great feature and shows a LOT of possession of clues. As for accessories, I think their recent announcements indicated that there are already tons in the works – so I don’t think this says ‘we have none, tell us what to do’, it just says that this is how a whole lot of product development gets (at least partially) influenced these days – look at all the Windows Mobile developers that most of us like the best – they listen to and continually *ask* their users what they want, what’s missing and so on. I’m still betting that the X-Box guys and others on the Zune team do have a lot of clues and will probably succeed …

I went over to the blog and posted my idea… maybe they’ll call me!!

LOL. Doubt it.

BTW – what are you doing up at this hour? I have an excuse (since this is when I work) … how about you =)

Ha – nice – keep the phone lines open. Up at this hour = no good excuse – always up late, tonight playing with the new iLauncher, looking for some SmartSkey tweaks, defending those Underdog Microsoft guys ….